We believed in politeness and thrift and fortitude, and doing duty and discipline. "You pointed to your own family upbringing and said, 'We believed in lots of things that are old-fashioned. However, as she turned the attention onto Mr Abbott, who was a noted opponent of same-sex marriage, host Hamish Macdonald interjected and pointed out that Ms Gillard during her tenure as prime minister was on the "conservative side" when it came to marriage equality.
I actually don't think we would have got it through the parliament at that point." "And that would not have been in anybody's interests to have that highly partisan debate. "Whatever one can say about Tony Abbott, he's a formidable campaigner, and I think this would have been an issue that he brought his formidable campaigning skills to," Ms Gillard said. Ms Gillard promptly answered that she "voted yes" in the same-sex marriage plebiscite before saying she felt that as leader of a minority government that the opposition under Mr Abbott would have bloc-voted against the notion. "Errors will be made, people are human, some things will go wrong, I'd rather be here than almost anywhere else on the planet," she said of Australia. The cases have left Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews - whose initial response to the pandemic was lauded - under siege over the new clusters and his handling of the outbreak but Ms Gillard refused to criticise him, citing just how tough and unprecedented this pandemic is. That national effort and success has taken a hit in the past week as cases in Victoria have spiked as part of a second wave that has caused a second lockdown. "We've really had a national effort here." A conservative prime minister working with Labor premiers - the opposition leaders at every level helping support the government. "I've been really pleased to see the spirit of bipartisanship that has been brought to the task. "Across Australia, people have done very, very well," Ms Gillard said when asked about the government response. "In politics in the last few years, people in many parts of the world have lost a sense of those things, and if we take those with us into the stage beyond the pandemic, then that'll be better for global politics," she said.Īs for Australian politics, Ms Gillard spoke across her previous party lines and on more than one occasion praised current Prime Minister Scott Morrison and state leaders for their coordinated response to the pandemic. Ms Gillard then called for a shift in the dynamic of global politics in the years to come. Ms Gillard said that when it came to coronavirus, if you're not following the science, you can't possibly be doing the right thing. If she's too strong, people will go, 'Ugh, she's not very likeable.' "A female leader, to succeed, has to manage a balance between strength and empathy.
"Male and female leadership is received differently," Ms Gillard said. Ms Gillard responded that in her view, male and female leaders were not inherently different but faced different challenges, before she unloaded on those leaders who were "blustering" strongmen who did not rely on the facts. Those statistics led one Q+A audience member to ask Ms Gillard if populist leaders around the globe, including those named above, had been "exposed" for their shortfalls and if the future would look to the styles of politics "exhibited by female heads of state". The US and Brazil have the highest and second-highest case numbers globally as their curves continue to arch upward. Some of the nations that are led by those types of men - Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the USA's Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson - are among the countries that have fared the worst when it comes to handling the pandemic, with high case numbers and death rates.
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